UUSC at General Assembly 2013

UUSC Gala featuring Kerry Kennedy
Friday, June 21, 6:00–7:30 p.m.
KICC Cascade Ballroom B

Schedule

The Shape of Justice: Keeping Promises to Our Communities
Thursday, June 20, 10:45 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
KICC 109-112

Drawing on the wisdom of our partners around the world, learn what successful and sustainable social change might look like in your own community and how you can help bring it about. Learn how to become effective allies with community partners in both service and the work of justice.

• Rev. Kathleen McTigue, director of the UU College of Social Justice
• Deanna Vandiver, executive director CELSJR, New Orleans
• Derek Mitchell, director of Holdeen India Program, UUA
• Chavannes Jean-Baptiste, MPP Haiti

Choose Compassionate Consumption: Personal Choice to Collective Action
Thursday, June 20, 1:45–3:00 p.m.
KICC 101

We have made a promise to eat ethically and support workers' rights. How do we make a commitment to change the food system in support of all the people who help make our food possible? Learn how we can work together to support workers' rights in the food chain with our individual choices and collective action.

• Rev. John Millspaugh
• Ariel Jacobson, UUSC
• Dennis Brunn, UUPLAN
• Saru Jayaraman, author of Behind the Kitchen Door

Building Interfaith Alliances: When We Are Not Enough
Thursday, June 20, 3:30–4:45 p.m.
KICC 101

Unitarian Universalists are eliminating gender based violence in Darfur, creating markets for fair trade, as shareholders moving corporations to fulfill human rights, and passing new law for the human right to water in California by creating powerful faith alliances. Take back to congregations learnings from today's successful faith alliances.

• Rev. Brock Leach
• Rev. Lindi Ramsden
• Rev. David Schilling
• Susan Sklar

Bridging the Boundaries
Friday, June 21, 1:45–3:00 p.m.
KICC 105-108

We each carry within us an invisible set of boundaries, learned through our lifetimes, that define self/other, us/them, spiritual/ political and other dichotomies. This worship service will lift up ways we might challenge these boundaries in order to answer the prophetic call and move into just relationship.

• Rev. Kathleen McTigue, director of the UU College of Social Justice
• Rev. Don Southworth, executive director of the UU Ministers Association

UUSC Gala featuring Kerry Kennedy
Friday, June 21, 6:00–7:30 p.m.
KICC Cascade Ballroom B

Kerry Kennedy, daughter of Robert and Ethel Kennedy and one of the world’s most acclaimed human rights activists, is the president of the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice & Human Rights. She has traveled the globe, including into some of the world’s most dangerous regions, to confront oppressors and offer encouragement to human rights defenders. Her Speak Truth To Power curriculum and initiative has educated hundreds of thousands of people about the experiences of those defenders and the nature of courage.

Hear Kennedy talk with UUSC President Bill Schulz about her family, her father’s legacy and the global struggle for human rights, after which UUSC will present her with its annual Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Award.

This event is open to all General Assembly attendees. Please arrive early as seating is limited. Light dinner will be provided, with a cash bar available.

Sunday Morning Worship with Rev. Dr. William F. Schulz
Sunday, June 23, 9:00–10:30 a.m.
KICC Hall 2C

Our Sunday worship service will take us to the farthest reaches of the cosmos and into the deepest places of our own hearts as the Rev. William Schulz, president of UUSC and former UUA president, preaches on "Tasting the Wine of Astonishment" and the GA Choir sings.